Like you said, at 56/57min, the score is 1-1, and we are going through if the score stay the same.
Barca is the better team in that match, no doubt bout it. But in football, the better team doesn't always win.

AW obviously send the team out to defend(Rosicky starts ahead of Arshavin proved this), simply because we don't have to score to go through. IIRC, in the 1st half we contain you guys pretty well, apart from Adriano's shot that hit the post, I can't remember Barca has a very clear cut chance, this means that AW's tactic is working. If Cesc didn't try to be too clever outside his own penalty box, I think at half time it would remain at 0-0.

We might not have a chance to score another goal when it's 1-1, but i have to remind you that we don't have to.
I don't deny that Barca is the better team, but I don't understand why you cant accept that that the red card changed the game.
If we have 11 players on the field, i still believe that we have a chance to defend the 1-1 score, it is after the red card we get cut open easily.

"Arsenal really didn't want to play football. All they cared about was defending. The red card did affect the game, but the decision was right in my opinion."

As far as I know, defending is also part of football game, so i don't know what he meant by we are not there to play football
Well at least he agreed that the red card affect the game, but its a right decision?

One more thing, some Barca's fans argue that because RvP is a forward, so his sending off doesn't affect the game which is ridiculous IMO. Just because he's a forward so he don't have to help the team to defend? Arsenal is never about one player, we attack as a team, we defend as a team. Barca also defend as a team, you can see how all of their player pressing us so high up the field, even Messi have to press together with his teammate.

With RvP on the field, he also provides us an outlet to release the ball when we have it(okay I know we dont have the ball most of the time, but at least we have one more player to pass the ball to). They keep argue that we don't have a single shot, why should we care about getting a shot when we will go through if we can keep the scoreline level. Maybe they really believe AW's words that we will attack them, if we intended to attack Arshavin would starts ahead of Rosicky.

I agree that Barca is the better team and deserved the win, but to those who can't accept that the red card played a big part in that is clearly delusional.

This post has been edited by c_calvin: Mar 9 2011, 07:36 PM

I don't really remember Cesc saying that before, maybe it's quite a long time ago. But i won't be too surprised if he said that because Arsenal players dislike playing against ultra-defensive team.

I might be bias here but I don't really agree that we are anti-football, anti-football would mean that we are not interested to get the ball and just kick the ball out of our own half when we have it, it might also involves a lot of kicking of opposition player. Of course that is just what i think of anti-football, other people might have different interpretation. But you can see we tried to pass it out of defense when we have it, which also lead to their 1st goal because Cesc tried to pass to Wilshere with a backheel in front of the penalty box

Anyway i get what u meant, when you're facing a far more superior team, you would have no choice but to focus on defending.

This post has been edited by c_calvin: Mar 9 2011, 08:43 PM

herm no further punishment on van persie?
he said that the referee is a joke rightly so but don't think you can do that.

However, there is no indication that Van Persie himself has been charged, despite calling Busacca a "joke" in a post-match interview

So i guess UEFA agree with RvP's comment?

This post has been edited by c_calvin: Mar 9 2011, 10:02 PM